I was low-key hoping for a technical philosophical article, which argues that to find any of this shit useful you need a distinctly american understanding of reality.

Kind of wild that the guy who popularized "enshittification" as a term will die on the hill that the technology which drives the industrial enshittification of all human media is fine actually, because some people find the plugins useful.

Ah, thanks! My expectations of node aren't much affected I guess. Bun.js maybe?

~~Eh, straight pip with venv and pip-tools for support worked fine anyway.~~ wrong uv!

As for systemd... time to look at the BSDs? Was Debian among the anti-slop projects? Would be nice if they took an interest in preventing the slopification of one of their core system.

Man, that harper piece is a full DnD alignment chart of the most online bay area weirdos you've ever seen.

Unfortunately the paper structure screams "AI senpai, notice me!"

AI coding agents seem bad at this job yet, but if you optimize for our benchmark...

Ich glaube wir sehen hier auch nix anarchistisches sondern verwöhnte Muttersöhnchen die auch gerne mal radikal und cool wären wie die Antifa.

Variierend subtiler Vandalismus im Kontrast.

Danke für dein Interesse!

(Das Interesse ist verpflichtend.)

I see two reasons why it's ultimately not possible to recreate conventional social media success via Fediverse.

1. Some services are taylored to the needs of already-famous people who will tend towards bigger platforms to maximize reach and drag followers along (e.g. what Twitter used to be)
2. You can't make a buck by cranking out content here. The possibility to make a living off your posting draws the most prolific posters to becoming professional creators for big platforms. You can't really do that on Fedi unless you already have a dedicated donor base.

That said, I don't think making more fedi things is pointless. But they are probably going to be smaller things, niche or local, particular to the interests of a couple fellas, points of human connection.

Hab letztens mal wieder beim Lanz reingeschaut um zu sehen wie schlimm es ist.

Ich weiß nicht wo ichs gehört hab, dass Lanz immer ein paar Frauen einlädt die mehr verstehen als alle andern und sie dann nicht zu Wort kommen lässt, aber es stimmt immer noch.